STC accuses its partners in Aden of corruption

ADEN, Jan. 09 (YPA) – The UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) affirmed on Wednesday “that the city of Aden and the rest of the southern provinces were being subjected to a comprehensive war in various services.

In a meeting of the administrative body of the so-called “National Assembly” of the STC, it explained that the war on services and the deterioration of the citizens’ living and economic conditions aimed to bring them to control, in indirect accusations against its partners in the Aden government.

The STC considered the accusations of corruption against the PetroMasila oil company an attempt to defame and target the company that it described the most important national company in the oil sector in the south, stressing the need for the fight against corruption to be comprehensive and non-selective.

It called for the need to strengthen the so-called “principles of transparency” in all procedures followed within the company, to uncover irregularities and hold their perpetrators accountable.

Earlier, Fadi Baoum, a leader of the STC, revealed in an audio recording that the PetroMasila Oil Company had been affiliated to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh since 2012, and it takes control the 7 most important oil sectors in Yemen.

“The company is not subject to the public treasury or the government, without knowing the exported quantity and revenues, he explained, describing its director, Mohammed bin Sumait, who resides in Canada, as a “broker” whose mission was to distribute money to corrupt people in the billions of dollars since 1994.

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